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Date published: 8:11 am, March 12th, 2018 - 37 comments
Categories: Amy Adams, Economy, housing, Judith Collins, national, phil twyford, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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Phil Twyford has the perfect response to National’s claim that Judith Collins’ appointment as Housing Spokesperson would cause him to lose sleep.
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Date published: 6:14 am, March 12th, 2018 - 19 comments
Categories: capitalism, climate change, Economy, trade
Tags: climate health, CPTPP, Oliver Hailes, tpp, TPPA
It’s Our Future spokesperson Oliver Hailes was on RNZ yesterday succinctly pointing out the problem with Labour and NZF’s u-turn on the TPPA. He also recently co-authored an article in the NZ Medical Journal on the TPPA, climate change and health.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 12th, 2018 - 38 comments
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Date published: 3:47 pm, March 11th, 2018 - 111 comments
National’s new line up has been announced. And there are some heavy hints to a few MPs that their careers may be ending soon.
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Date published: 12:59 pm, March 11th, 2018 - 13 comments
Stuff have published online a video interview with Andrew Little where he goes through the circumstances of his resignation as leader, the ascension of Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister and his work as a Minister.
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Date published: 9:21 am, March 11th, 2018 - 38 comments
There is evidence in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand that youth and not class may be the new political divide.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 11th, 2018 - 183 comments
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Date published: 9:30 am, March 10th, 2018 - 72 comments
Bill Rosenberg from the CTU has stated convincingly why National is not and was not a sound manager of the economy.
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Date published: 8:15 am, March 10th, 2018 - 155 comments
An occasional post where we celebrate the extremely banal or bad taste or idiotic behaviour in politics.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 10th, 2018 - 51 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 9th, 2018 - 47 comments
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Date published: 10:55 am, March 9th, 2018 - 69 comments
Ad argues that the merits of banning overseas ownership of local land is not as simple or as virtuous as we may think.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 9th, 2018 - 139 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 8th, 2018 - 18 comments
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Date published: 9:00 am, March 8th, 2018 - 107 comments
Amy Adams won’t commit to $11.7b, but she too has now become the third person to fall down the imaginary fiscal hole. How can National claim to have any soundness on finance if they won’t admit their criticisms on the economy are unreasonable and unfounded? And besides, aren’t National actually worse fiscal managers if ordinary people tend to get paid less under their regimes? We dive into some theory to thoroughly dispute even Steven Joyce’s/Amy Adam’s secondary criticism of “fiscal tightness,” although concede that two of the Budget Responsibility rules are probably stupid in order to do it.
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Date published: 8:43 am, March 8th, 2018 - 27 comments
National’s constitutionally outrageous attempt to stifle the claims of family carers for compensation for discrimination should be repealed and a just settlement reached with the caregivers.
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Date published: 8:30 am, March 8th, 2018 - 82 comments
The TPP is due to be signed today. For those who aren’t done to death with hearing about it, why is it still bad, why hasn’t it met Labour’s bottom lines, and why are we even signing it?
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Date published: 6:17 am, March 8th, 2018 - 18 comments
As Labour picks up the pen to sign the TPPA, environmental critics argue that the new agreement has done nothing to allay fears of New Zealand being sued by corporations to prevent the government from taking action on climate change.
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Date published: 6:10 am, March 8th, 2018 - 8 comments
Protestors will gather outside Parliament at midday on Thursday 8 March to hear from a range of speakers in opposition to the TPPA signing ceremony in Chile
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 8th, 2018 - 291 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 7th, 2018 - 16 comments
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Date published: 1:20 pm, March 7th, 2018 - 32 comments
Don’t hold your breath for recommendations of radical tax reform from the Tax Working Group. Chair Sir Michael Cullen says the 2020 election will be a referendum on tax and he is already kicking for touch
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Date published: 11:45 am, March 7th, 2018 - 123 comments
Rare praise for Steven Joyce from someone on the left.
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Date published: 8:03 am, March 7th, 2018 - 65 comments
Steven Joyce’s resignation may be the first of many as National adjusts to the possibility of a lengthy stay in opposition.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2018 - 89 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 6th, 2018 - 34 comments
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Date published: 1:53 pm, March 6th, 2018 - 204 comments
Steven Joyce has announced that he is resigning from Parliament.
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Date published: 1:16 pm, March 6th, 2018 - 114 comments
With the publishing of another misogynistic cartoon, it’s time to ask who were the witches and why are so many men still afraid of them?
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 6th, 2018 - 44 comments
The message coming out is hold the line, sign the petition, regroup, and protest on Thurs the 8th, the day Labour puts our name to the agreement.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2018 - 88 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 5th, 2018 - 16 comments
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